The Modern Literature and Literary Men of France.; The French Histerlans. LECTURE III.

M. PAUL ARPIN'S third lecture, on Saturday evening last, was attended by a large and attentive audience. It was especially devoted to a consideration of that class of French historians who have, during the last century, achieved the historical reform and applied it to past ages, the lecturer reserving for a future discourse, the historians of the present or revolutionary period. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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